Solomon Islands

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Web The islands were regularly visited by European explorers and American and British whaling ships into the 1800s followed by missionaries in the 1850s.

. It has a land area of 28400 square kilometres 11000 sq mi and a population of about 700000. The country comprises most of the Solomons chainwith the exception of Buka and Bougainville two islands at the northwestern end that form an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea. It consists of a double chain of volcanic islands and coral atolls in Melanesia.

The archipelago is in the Melanesia subregion and bioregion of Oceania and forms the eastern boundary of the Solomon Sea. Web Solomon Islands is a party to the US-Pacific Islands Multilateral Tuna Fisheries Treaty which provides access for US. Covering an area of 28400 sqkm 11000 sq mi Solomon Islands are an archipelagic state comprising of a double chain of 992 volcanic islands and coral atolls in Melanesia located in southwest Pacific Ocean.

Web Key Facts. Web Solomon Islands country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. Web The Solomon Islands archipelago is an archipelago in the western South Pacific Ocean northeast of Australia.

The many islands of the archipelago are distributed across Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands. Web Solomon Islands is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania to the east of Papua New Guinea and northwest of Vanuatu. Fishing vessels in exchange for a license fee from the US.

The Solomons a chain of islands in the southern Pacific is home to about 800000 people. Under a separate Economic Assistance Agreement associated with the Treaty the US. Germany declared a protectorate over the northern Solomon Islands in 1885 and the UK established a protectorate over the southern islands in 1893.

Extending about 900 miles 1448km in total length the Solomon Islands are a wide-spread archipelago of. Its capital Honiara is located on the largest island Guadalcanal. Web 1 day agoAccording to UN data about 20000 people live within 50 kilometres of the epicentre.

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